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Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

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Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

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Post by matsemann »

At least in Norway it's already public what everyone makes. I can look up the taxable salary information about anyone (so salary after deductions but it's probably ok close). Also, even without that, salary of public employees is part of the information you can request to view.

I feel discussing salaries is quite common here. At work someone made a spreadsheet everyone fills their salary into if they want, experience, tenure etc and you can see how you compare. It's a great way of leveling the information imbalance that's normally there.

Edit: not sure why I'm down voted. I'm just saying how it is here, don't take it out on me if you don't like the concept, heh!

Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

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Post by switch007 »

Clickbait. Google 'Directive 2023/970' for many better other articles

A very amateur looking site too. Domain registered in 2023. Few Google references to the name. Can't handle HN load. The "About Us" contains a link to https://7bn.org/team , which gives a Cloudflare error and https://7bn.org returns a web hosting "Default Web Site Page"

And 50 upvotes while the site isn't even loading? Hilarious

Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

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Post by JoelJacobson »

matsemann wrote: post #5

At least in Norway it's already public what everyone makes. I can look up the taxable salary information about anyone (so salary after deductions but it's probably ok close). Also, even without that, salary of public employees is part of the information you can request to view. I feel discussing salaries is quite common here. At work someone made a spreadsheet everyone fills their salary into if they want, experience…

In Sweden too

Re: Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

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Post by mylastattempt »

Title reads like there will be public access to all employees' salaris as of 2026. Obviously not quite the case.

> {...} Given that the main objective of the measure is to reduce salary inequality, companies will have to make salaries or salary ranges for each position public.

In addition, they will have to share with their employees the criteria used to set these remunerations. They will also have to provide information on salary inequalities within the company, broken down by gender.

> {...} As of 2026, employees will have the right to request and receive in writing information about their individual salary and the average salary ranges of colleagues performing the same job or one of equal value. {...} In order to maintain competitiveness and privacy, the European directive sets access limits to the information, prohibiting the request of this information for purposes other than the defense of their salary equality rights.

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